The Top 100 Lists Are Nigh. Nigh, I Say! Nigh!

Remember when we were young and I conducted these craaaazy polls asking you guys to vote on your Top 10 Picture Books and Top 10 Children’s Novels? Remember when I enlisted the help of some talented survey monkeys and we calculated the results, coming up with some top 100 lists? And remember when I promised you that if you signed up you could get jaw-droppingly gorgeous PDFs, suitable for printing/framing of the Top 10 of each list with the full 100 along the side? Yeah, whatever happened with that?

Well the good news is that the people of SLJ have bent over backwards to make these PDFs as pretty as can be. They’re up. They’re amazing. And if you haven’t gotten a copy you can just fill out the form for the Top 100 Children’s Novels here and the Top 100 Picture Books here and they’ll be sent to you.

How easy on the eyes are they? A glimpse:

There are even quotes from readers included that didn’t make it into the online edition.

Elizabeth Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.

Oh, the PDF is just a sample of the list. To request the list click on the links on my sidebar that read “Top 100 Picture Books” and “Top 100 Children’s Novels”. You’ll fill out a form and SLJ will send you the lists. Easy peasy.

Thanks for your response. Is this the link I should use? I tried to download the file again but it still did not work. It loaded 3.14mb but no pdf file loaded. I tried again, and the same thing happened.
Then when I right-clicked the file and opened it, the saved version is only 12 pgs.

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Betsy Bird is the Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library. She's reviewed for The New York Times and Kirkus, writes articles for Horn Book and SLJ, and wrote the picture book Giant Dance Party. You can contact her at Fusenumber8@gmail.com or follow her on . . .